After a super-fun-time debacle restoring a single file today I'd like to talk about our backups a bit. Right now our backups are: - bacula to a few central servers and then off to tape. That seems like it is not scaling super-duper well for our size of disk storage. It also seems like it is a wee bit cumbersome to use. :) In the best of all possible infinite-money worlds I'd love to have enough disk space to offer multiple snapshots of every filesystem and/or a complete disk-to-disk copy with deduping (obnam) or with reverse diffs (rdiff-backup). But let's assume that world is not likely to exist and figure a few things out: 1. where are we backing up that we don't need to? 2. are there places that we can backup that really would benefit from being a warmer-backup always available in a filesystem somewhere 3. Is there any good way to couple snapshots with our tape system to make our backups a little simpler to deal with? 4. What level of bare metal-disaster-recovery do we actually HAVE with our existing system and have we ever tested any of those cases? I do not know when I will get the time to put into fixing any of these things up - but after today it is clearly on my list of things to think about. -sv _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
